1900 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



271 



or the other "divine healer." No man but 

 Christ Jesus himself ever healed anybody by 

 the "absent" method. The whole thing is 

 witchcraft of olden time revived ; and the only 

 possible explanation I can think of, as to why 

 people should send money in sums going away 

 up into the thousands to such impostors and 

 charlatans is that Satan has broken loose in 

 a new direction within the past few months. 

 I do not know but people are getting money 

 so easily in these days of plenty of employ- 

 ment and good wages that they do not know 

 the value of it. But is it the /><7cr people's 

 money that supports in royal style these high- 

 way robbers — men who make it a great busi- 

 ness to rob the sick? The 28 girls with type- 

 writers did all the curing there was done. 

 Bemis just sat in his mahogany chair and 

 bo^se4 things, he and his wife inventing a 

 nezv batch of lies to send out every morning. 



THE PEACH-TREE BORER. 



This is the title of Bulletin No. 176, from 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. ; audi would 

 earnestly advise everybody to procure it who 

 has been troubled with borers in fruit-trees. 

 As the matter has been frequently discussed 

 in our pages, I clip the final summing-up of 

 the whole bulletin as follows : 



In our four years of warfare agaiii'^t the peach-tree 

 borer we have been thoroughly convinced that it is a 

 difficult insect enemy to control. No method of fight- 

 ing it has yet been dt vised by which the peach grower 

 can hope to get a single year's respite : the trees must 

 be treated anew each year, and thus the warfare is a 

 perpetual one. 



The f.jllowing svibstances injured or killed our trees, 

 and are therefore classed as dane:erous: 



Paris green and glue, raupenleim, dentrolene, white 

 paint, white paint and Paris green, printer's ink. 



The following is a list of the things we found to be 

 practically ineffectual or useless: 



Wire cages, carbon bisulphide, asafoetida and aloes, 

 lime, salt, and sulphur, resin wash, hard soap, tallow, 

 tansy, whale-oil soap, whitewash, lime and linseed 

 oil, hj'draulic cement wash, pine tar, Hale's wash (one 

 application). 



The following methods proved to be quite effective; 

 that is, most ot them kept out over one-half of the 

 borers : 



Hale's wash (two applications) kept out ,'3 to Y2.. 

 Mounding kept out ^ to /j,. Tarred paper kept out ^ 

 to %. Tobacco stems kept out % to[;. We would ex- 

 pect equally good results from the " digging-out " 

 method applied under the conditions stated on page 9. 

 Gas tar gave us the best results of any thing we tried. 



We are especially pleased to see gas tar get 

 such a good recommend, especially as one of 

 our correspondents, Mr. B. F. Barr, on page 

 742, 1898, was so very positive that it would 

 do the work, and would not injure the tree in 

 any way whatever. In their directions for 

 using gas tar, they state as follows : 



We believe it will prove equally effectiv whether 

 the borers are dug out or not, and from no uther appli- 

 cation yet devised would we expect to get such resu ts 

 when used independent of the " digging out " method. 



THE BERMUDA PAPAYA (OR MELON) TREE. 



I have a papaya-tree from your seed, over 3 ft. high. 

 It will stand dry air and heat better than most plants. 

 Clinton, 111. Henry Wilson. 



Well, friend W., I am glad to know that one 

 person has succeeded. We had one last fall 

 four feet high with leaves as large as a small 

 parasol ; but before I learned the trade of 

 handling greenhouse stuff I worried it to 



death. I am trying now to get a cutting of it 

 in that cutting-bed, but I fear I shall not suc- 

 ceed. 



SOMETHING MORE ABOUT THAT BIG CROP OF 

 CARROTS ; SEE PAGE 63. 



My. Root : — I see you want to know more about the 

 carrots. I do not know the name of the carrots. All 

 that I know, it is the half-long carrot. I plant them 

 between strawberries. There are five rows, and each 

 row 55 ft. long. They were only kept clean of weeds; 

 each row filled 2% bushels, except tiie last row. Which 

 filled 2 bushels. I figured if I planted the carrots by 

 them.selves a foot apart it would make about a square 

 rod. 



Last summer, a year ago, we had a patch of straw- 

 berries 25 by 55 ft. in size, and we got about ten bush- 

 els. They were Jessie and Haverland. 



Peters, Mich., Feb. 26. Fred A. Hund. 



Your explanation, friend H., makes it very- 

 plain. The strawberries gave space between 

 the carrots for sun and air ; and, if I am cor- 

 rect, your crop of strawberries was a good 

 deal smaller because of the tremendous crop 

 of carrots between the rows. Of course, your 

 statement was all right ; but I think I might 

 perhaps do the same thing on our ground in 

 the way you have explained how you did it. 



SPRAYING FRUIT-TREES. 



The question of spraying fruit-trees to prevent the 

 depredations of insect pets and fungus di.seases is no 

 loi.ger an experiment but a necessity. 



Our readers will do well to write \Vm. Stahl, Quincy, 

 111., and get his catalog describing twenty-one styles 

 of spray ng outfits and full treatise on spraying the 

 diflferent fruit and vegetable crops, which contains 

 much valuable information, and may be had for the 

 asking. 



In/IDE AWAKE WOMEN 



W everywhere are 1 uriiishiug their liomt-s without 

 I iiione.v by riistributiiig a tew ot our line soaps, pei- 

 liuiiies. extracts and toilet preparations, amohi^ 

 tneir trieiids ;ind i;eif;hbors. 



No Money Needed 



We send the (roods 

 mid prciniiiiuH on 



30 days trial and 

 gUHriintee llieiii. 



This handsome 



white enamelled 



Iron bed with brass 



trimniinfJTs is only 



- one of our many 



, jemiums. You oiiii funilnh 



your home without one cent. 



■ if |ireBiiums. Hatclips, t'am- 



,, „ ., 1 i;;rls. Wtilf us at cm.-. 



s & Reed. S-lZ-S.'iri Austin .Av. Pep. H,Chicago,m. 



in writing, mention uieauiiij. s. 



